This is what we need to get the country on the right track. After much debate, I think that if Repbulicans focus on this, it will tip the balance for her confirmation.
How will confirming her do a thing for tort reform? The legislature has to do that; the courts have no role in writing those laws.
TortReformer, I disagree. It is good to have justices who are open to tort reform, since so many of them belong to the tort lawyers' club. But it's hardly enough to make her a strict conservative. She's good on this point, and has a real record; but she doesn't have a record on anything else.
AmericaUnited, you make an excellent case that she is a good business lawyer. I agree. That's what she's done all her life: work for the big guys in the establishment. Her last job has been to work hard and loyally for the Biggest Guy of all.
I have no quarrel with that, but it doesn't in the least show that she would be reliable on the other issues. At best it suggests that she would be a first-rate country club conservative.
This woman is no legal reformer. She has never foregone a retainer to pursue a bad case.